Jamia Millia Islamia student tops ISRO exam

ISRO Centralised Recruitment Board-2019 conducted the written test for the selection of SC level scientists in January 2020 and interviews of the candidates who cleared exams were conducted in July 2021. 

Mohammad Kashif, an alumnus of the Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), has secured the first position in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Centralised Recruitment Board-2019 Exam for the post of the scientist/engineer ‘SC’-mechanical. Kashif completed his BTech in Mechanical Engineering from JMI in 2019. 

Two more JMI students selected as scientist/engineer 

Apart from Kashif, two other students of his class Amit Kumar Bhardwaj and Areeb Ahmad have been selected for the same position in the space research organisation.  ISRO Centralised Recruitment Board-2019 conducted the written test for the selection of SC level scientists in January 2020 and interviews of the candidates who cleared exams were conducted in July 2021.

 Elated over the performance of JMI students, Vice Chancellor Prof Najma Akhtar conveyed her best wishes to them and hoped that it would motivate other students towards pursuing a career in research and excel in it. 

In the recently declared NIRF Rankings, JMI moved up four places from 10th last year to 6th this year in the university category and the Vice-Chancellor attributes the improvement to enhanced research atmosphere in the university. 

Jamia Milia Islamia has announced that it will be reopening the campus for PhD students, who are yet to submit their thesis by the end of this year. The campus will also be reopened for offline classes and clinical practice from November for final-year students too. JMI has directed all the students, teachers, administrative and support staff to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at the earliest and follow all the COVID-19 guidelines strictly. 

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